Met School Co-Founder Dennis Littky featured Speaker at the World Innovation Summit for Education

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Friday, December 10, 2010

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In Rhode Island, Dennis Littky was at the forefront of education reform about 20 years ago. In Qatar this week he was leading the World Innovation Summit for Education. Littky, Co-Founder of the Met High School and Big Picture Learning was one of the featured speakers at the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) in Doha, Qatar this week. This summit is designed to provide “a platform for an international education community to generate dialogue on education.” More than 1,200 attended.

Littky drew attention to the challenges facing both teachers and students, focusing on empowering teachers to help them increase their maximum potential. As reported this week in the Gulf Times,“Today’s students are taught at the schools of yesterday, teachers of the past and are imparted the curriculum of the medieval ages. Teachers are teaching subjects and not reaching students anywhere, this could be perhaps because of the lack of motivation, inspiration and support from the community which employs them," said Littky.

He concluded that educators need more than occasional professional development, “rather the focus should be on long–term specialized programs which would empower teachers in a big way. This is part of the successful formula of Big Picture Schools and Colleges which have created over sixty schools nationwide and in Canada, Australia and the Netherlands," said Littky.

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